Mr. Mohan Datwani is a solicitor and accredited mediator. Mr. Datwani is currently Director, Technical and Research at the Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (HKICS) with a regulatory and compliance focus for promoting the company
secretary profession and good corporate governance, including the issue of guidance notes, technical submissions to the Government and international organizations like OECD on legislative proposals and international best practices on corporate governance and related consultations.

Mr. Datwani was formerly partner of a US based international law firm with diverse experiences in representing major local and international clients including banking and advisory, compliance, corporate and commercial transactions, energy, finance, litigation, insolvency and real estate.

Mr. Datwani was formerly named a leading lawyer in asset finance by Legal 500. The transactions that Mr. Datwani dealt with included acting for consortium members for the development of the International Finance Centre (IFC) and other airport railway projects with MTRC, the acquisition of Citybus from Stagecoach PLC, the joint venture with Huarong Asset Management Company on
NPL portfolios, due diligence on acquisition of mining assets, advising on oil and gas transactions, along with other market transactions and litigations, including obtaining for client a US$2billion judgment in a complex HK/US fraud case.

Mr. Datwani speaks English, Cantonese and Putonghua.

Course Outline:

With the new Companies Ordinance come into effect on 3 March 2014, this lecture will use examples to bring out salient features of conflicts of interests and also new provisions under the new Companies Ordinance relating to self-dealing of directors which flows therefrom. It will be desirable for participants to discuss fact situations during the seminar.